PRESENTER: Often when you visit a website, the website address will start with three small letters, www. The www stands for world wide web but have you ever thought, what is the world wide web?

Berners-Lee came up with the idea for what he initially called “Mesh” while working at Europe’s physics research center CERN, calling it the World Wide Web in 1990. When asked who had the ...

But 30 years ago this week, that all changed. On April 30, 1993, something called the World Wide Web launched into the public domain. The web made it simple for anyone to navigate the internet.

The seeds of the Web were planted much earlier than 1991. Amazingly, a very early version of the World Wide Web was floating around in at least one person's head way back during World War II.

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, now wants to save it. The computer scientist who wrote the blueprint for what would become the World Wide Web 28 years ago today is alarmed at ...

The World Wide Web might sound metaphorical, but it’s actually grounded in a physical web of translucent glass filaments ...

On April 30, 1993, the European research organization known as CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s code for the World Wide Web into the public domain. The internet has many components but this ...

Last week, the World Wide Web Foundation announced in an open letter (PDF) that it would be “winding down” and “closing [its] virtual doors” after 15 years of working to make the web safer ...